02-14-2008, 04:40 PM
Oh, thank you, Jerry. Just when I thought it was safe to go back in the tidepool....this.
Yes, I agree that something is happening. It has been happening since the July 21st breakout, and then the event that occurred shortly after I closed escrow. Pu'u O'o just stops, and then you have the breakout, the building of the Roman Aqueduct sized elevated channel which was pointed at Pahoa (which means "dagger" but we don't know which way the dagger is pointing). Then that stops and we have the zillions of little rootless shields (I call them volcanoettes), fed by lavatubes emanating, generally from Fissure D. Then those stop. And we have the hugely elevated sulfur dioxide levels --levels so severe they have to close off parts of the Park.
Should they call a demonic wasteland a "park". Don't know. Discussion for another day.
Anyway, I love talking through my hat about the volcano, so here is what I think is going on.....the pathway to Pu'u O'o was blocked in some way or diverted by something shifting beneath the earth. This resulted in Fissure D. But that wasn't satisfactory. The lava was looking, searching, searching for a way to the surface to escape its molten purgatory. What's the biggest, fattest channel to the surface when other ways are blocked: the summit.
Okay, I made most of that up. I take comfort though in knowing that the scientists are puzzled. No wait --no I don't. That means that what we are seeing is unprecedented in recorded history.
Great.
Yes, I agree that something is happening. It has been happening since the July 21st breakout, and then the event that occurred shortly after I closed escrow. Pu'u O'o just stops, and then you have the breakout, the building of the Roman Aqueduct sized elevated channel which was pointed at Pahoa (which means "dagger" but we don't know which way the dagger is pointing). Then that stops and we have the zillions of little rootless shields (I call them volcanoettes), fed by lavatubes emanating, generally from Fissure D. Then those stop. And we have the hugely elevated sulfur dioxide levels --levels so severe they have to close off parts of the Park.
Should they call a demonic wasteland a "park". Don't know. Discussion for another day.
Anyway, I love talking through my hat about the volcano, so here is what I think is going on.....the pathway to Pu'u O'o was blocked in some way or diverted by something shifting beneath the earth. This resulted in Fissure D. But that wasn't satisfactory. The lava was looking, searching, searching for a way to the surface to escape its molten purgatory. What's the biggest, fattest channel to the surface when other ways are blocked: the summit.
Okay, I made most of that up. I take comfort though in knowing that the scientists are puzzled. No wait --no I don't. That means that what we are seeing is unprecedented in recorded history.
Great.